UMDNJ-Rutgers University
CounterACT Research
Center of Excellence

Designing therapies to counteract chemical terrorism.

Upcoming Events:

9/28/09, Dr. Tack Kuntz, University of California, San Francisco, "Physics-Based Models of Biological Evolution", 260 Hill Center, Busch Campus, Piscataway, NJ.

9/29/09; 1:30 pm; Tack Kuntz, University of California, San Francisco (UCSF), "Physics based models of evolution" Hill Center, Room 260, Busch Campus, Piscataway, NJ

9/30/09; 1:30 pm; Robert Jernigan Iowa State University,  'Functional Protein Motions', Hill Center, Rm 260, Busch Campus, Piscataway, NJ

9/30/09; 1:30 pm; Christopher T. Bever, Jr., MD, MBA, University of Maryland, School of Medicine; "Advances in Symptomatic Management of Multiple Sclerosis", Clinical Academic Building, 1302, New Brunswick, NJ

11/2/09; 11:30-12:30; Dr. Alexander Schliep, Rutgers University, "Clustering Biological Data Using Mixture Models", DIMACS Center, CoRE Bldg, Room 431, Rutgers University, Busch Campus, Piscataway, NJ

11/16/09;12 pm; Dr. Francisco M. De La Vega, Genetic Systems R and D, Life Technologies, Foster City, CA, "Understanding human genetic variation at the personal and population level through massively-parallel whole-genome sequencing"; Rutgers Life Sciences Building, Busch campus, Piscataway, NJ.

Ultra-high throughput sequencing is becoming a cost-effective method for the analysis of human genomes to discover genetic variation that could have implications in health and disease. We analyzed the SNPs and structural variants from the genomes of five diverse HapMap individuals. Our results suggest that much more genetic variation remains to be uncovered in human populations, in particular structural, which must be considered to obtain a complete picture of their functional impact in individual genome sequences.

Previous Events:

9/25/09; 9:15 am; Dr. Ann M. Stock, UMDNJ,RWJMS, Center for Advanced Biotechnology & Medicine, "Regulating Response Regulators", 138A Foran Hall, Cook Campus, Piscataway, NJ.

9/24/09; 12 noon; Lung Chi Chen, Ph.D., New York University, "All particles, great and small", EOHSI Conference Room C, Piscataway, NJ.

9/23/09; 1:30 pm; Ravi Sachidanandam, Mount Sinai School of Medicine, "Large Numbers of Small RNAs" Hill Center, Room 260, Busch Campus, Piscataway

9/23/09; 4 pm; Binghui Shen, Ph.D., City of Hope, Duarte, California, "Mutations in Human Flap Endonuclease-1 Results in Genome Instability and Inflammation-associated Cancer", CINJ Auditorium, New Brunswick

9/22/09; 1:30 pm; Howard Kipen, MD, MPH, Environmental & Occupational Health Sciences Institute, "Problems from Particles", EOHSI A&B, Busch campus, Piscataway

7/15/09 - Rutgers University Skin Symposium on Drug Discovery and Scale-up, Life Sciences Building, Busch Campus, Piscataway, NJ.

"Challenges in Skin Delivery" - Dr. Bozena Michniak-Kohn - Dr. Michniak-Kohn will present her current research on topical and transdermal drug transport and delivery, and the Lab's unique tissue-engineering approach to a human, full-thickness skin model for investigating barrier properties and  testing cytoxicity in-vitro.

"Scale-up Scenarios" - What do you need to know to take your discovery from the bench to the bedside? Panelists will discuss process development, finance, and regulatory compliance- including the varied requirements for drugs, devices, and cosmetics.

Edith Lewis Rogers, MBA,
Executive Vice President of ESLR Associates, LLC
Moderator

Dr. Neal Walker
Co-Founder, Octagon Research Services, Inc
 
Annette M. Tobia, Ph.D., J.D.
Founder and CEO, Dynamis Therapeutics, Inc
 
Michael J. McCreery, Ph.D.
Deputy Director,
Medical Countermeasures Against Radiological Threats
University of Maryland School of Medicine

"Weather Report on the Funding Climate"

Lifescience deal-making is not for the faint of heart. How can growing companies position themselves to attract support as they build pipeline for tomorrow's healthcare breakthroughs?

Angel funding, VC, government resources and licensing/acquisition will be discussed.

Walter Greenblatt, MBA,
Managing Director, Walter Greenblatt & Associates

6/26/09: Peter Nigro, M.D., M.P.H., Merck and Company, "Laboratory Animal Allergy: Setting an Exposure Limit", 1:30pm, 110 EOHSI, Busch Campus, Piscataway, NJ.

6/16/09; Debra Laskin, Ph.D., Rutgers University, "Macrophages, Inflammatory Mediators, and Tissue Injury", 11:30am-1:30pm, 110 EOHSI, Busch Campus, Piscataway, NJ.

6/15/09; Biomarker Research Technology Symposium, sponsored by the UMDNJ-Robert Wood Johnson Medical School DNA Core Facility, 9am-4pm, Auditorium A, Cancer Institute of New Jersey, New Brunswick, NJ.

6/15/09; Robert Hromas, Ph.D., University of New Mexico, "Metnase and its role in genome stability", 12:00 pm, Auditorium, Life Sciences Building, Busch Campus, Piscataway, NJ.

6/10/09 - Tocopherols in Inflammation and Cancer Prevention

‘Biochemical activities of tocopherols and epidemiology on tocopherols and cancer’
Dr. Robert Cooney, Cancer Research Center, University of Hawaii

‘Vitamin E forms: anti-inflammatory and anti-cancer activities’
Dr. Qing Jiang, Purdue University

‘Mechanisms of inhibition of prostate cancer by tocopherols’
Dr. Tony Kong, Rutgers University

‘Tocopherols and breast cancer prevention’
Dr. Nanjoo Suh, Rutgers University

‘Inhibition of colon and lung tumorigenesis by tocopherols’
Dr. Chung S. Yang, Rutgers University

6/8/09; Roscoe Brady, Ph.D., National Institute of Neurological Disorder and Stroke, NIH, "Current status and emerging strategies for the treatment of hereditary metablic storage disorders", 12:00 pm, Auditorium, Life Sciences Building, Busch Campus, Piscataway, NJ.

6/1/9; Bonnie Firestein, Ph.D., Rutgers University, "Regulation of Neuronal Development by NOS1AP", 12pm, Human Genetics Institute Auditorium, Busch Campus, Piscataway, NJ.

5/6/09; Miriam Meisler, Ph.D., University of Michigan, “Mutations in Endosomal-Lysosomal Trafficking and Neurodegenerative Disease in Human and Mouse”, 12:00 pm, CABM 010, Rutgers Busch campus

5/4/09; Joe Hacia, Ph.D., University of Southern California, "Human Genetics and Lipid Metabolism", 12:00 pm, Auditorium, Life Sciences Building, Busch Campus, Piscataway, NJ.

4/28/09; Perspectives in Medicinal Chemistry, Justin Lopchuk, Rutgers University, “Function-Oriented Synthesis: Overcoming the supply challenges for Bryostatin and Laulimalide” 12:00 noon, Rutgers School of Pharmacy, conference room 323A

4/28/09; Terry L. Orr-Weaver, Ph.D., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, “Developmental Regulation of DNA Replication”, 4 pm, Waksman Auditorium, Rutgers Busch campus, Piscataway

4/21/09; Perspectives in Medicinal Chemistry: Lin Chen, Rutgers University, “Antidrugs: A safer way for drug design” 12:00 noon, Rutgers School of Pharmacy, conference room 323A

4/20/09; Peter Stambrook, Ph.D., University of Cincinnati College of Medicine, "Cancer Cell Biology", 12:00 pm, Auditorium, Life Sciences Building, Busch Campus, Piscataway, NJ.

4/17/09; Gary Koretzky, Ph.D., Univ. of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, “Adaptor proteins in T cell signaling”, 12:00 pm, Nelson B228, Busch campus, Piscataway, NJ

4/14/09 - 4/16/09 - CounterACT 3rd Annual Meeting, Omni Shoreham Hotel, Washington, D.C.

4/1/09; Richard Rivlin, M.D., Weill Medical College of Cornell University, “Can Nutrition Prevent Cancer? New Approaches to Ancient Remedies” 4 pm, CINJ Auditorium, UMDNJ New Brunswick

3/31/09; Perspectives in Medicinal Chemistry: Herve Aloysius, Rutgers University, “Design and synthesis of targeted anticancer prodrugs activated by proteolysis”, 12:00 noon, Rutgers School of Pharmacy, conference room 323A

3/27/09; Ege Kavalali, Ph.D., Univ. of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, “Synaptic vesicle trafficking and its impact on neurotransmission”, 12:00 noon, Nelson B228, Rutgers, Busch campus.

3/25/09; George J. Weiner, M.D. The University of Iowa  How to Make a Good Thing Better - Anti-cancer Monoclonal Antibody Mechanisms of Action Wednesday, March 25, 2009 16:00 CINJ Auditorium

3/24/09; Steve Marcus, MD, NJ Poison Information Control Center, “A Poison Potpourri”, 1:30 EOHSI A&B, Busch campus, Piscataway, NJ

3/24/09; Perspectives in Medicinal Chemistry: Yanping Xu, Rutgers University, “Lead Structures for the Discovery of Microtubule Stabilizers”, 12:00 noon, Rutgers School of Pharmacy, conference room 323A

3/23/09; Dmitri Zaykin, Ph.D., National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, "Detecting Haplotype associations when important causative factors may not have been ascertained", 12:00 pm, Auditorium, Life Sciences Building, Busch Campus, Piscataway, NJ.

3/20/09; Ana Maria Cuervo, Ph.D., Albert Einstein College of Medicine, “Secective Autophagy; something more than a waste collector”, 12:00 pm, Nelson B228, Busch campus, Piscataway, NJ

3/04/09; 12 pm, Masayori Inouye, UMDNJ-Robert W Johnson Medical School, “Single Protein Production System for Direct Analysis of Structure”, CABM 010, Busch Campus, Piscataway, NJ

3/2/09; Clark Coffman, Iowa State University, Ames, IA, “Wanderings and fateful decisions: Using germ cells to elucidate the signaling networks regulating cell migration and programmed cell death”, 12:00 pm, Life Sciences Bldg. Auditorium, Busch campus, Piscataway, NJ

2/27/09; Howard A. Young, Ph.D., National Cancer Institute, “Regulation of Interferon-gamma gene expression” 12:00 pm, Nelson B228, Busch campus, Piscataway, NJ

2/25/09; Chris Takimoto, M.D., Ph.D. Ortho Biotech Oncology R&D The Modern Oncology Phase 1 Trial: Teaching an Old Dog New Tricks Wednesday, February 25, 2009 16:00 CINJ Auditorium

2/24/09; Marion Gordon, Ph.D., Rutgers University, "Epithelial Healing after Sulfur Mustard Exposure"; 1:00-2:00 pm, sponsored by The New Jersey Skin Club, JSJ Pharmaceuticals, Inc, and Target Health Inc., conference room C, EOHSI, Busch campus, Rutgers, Piscataway, NJ

2/24/09; Christina Tan, MD, NJ Dept of Health and Senior Services Communicable Disease Service, "Pandemic Influenza Issues" , 1:30 pm, EOHSI A&B, Busch campus, Piscataway, NJ 

2/24/09; Stephen Moorman, Ph.D., Hatem Sabaawy, M.D., Monica Driscoll, Ph.D., and Ruth Steward, Ph.D.; Animal Models to Understand Biology and Human Disease Tuesday, February 24, 2009 15:30 CABM 010

2/18/09; Theodore L. DeWeese, M.D. Johns Hopkins University Altering Cellular Radiation Response: Do We Need Targeted Agents?"  Wednesday, February 18, 2009 16:00 CINJ Auditorium

2/18/09; Andrej Skerjanec, Ph.D., Novartis, "Role of Pharmacokinetics in Drug Development", 12:00-1:20 pm; room 111, Pharmacy Building, Busch campus, Rutgers, Piscataway, NJ

2/17/09; Jun-Yan Hong, PhD, UMDNJ-School of Public Health, "Impact of Genetic Factors on an Individual's Susceptibility to Environmental Disease"; 1:30 pm, EOHSI A&B, Busch campus, Piscataway, NJ

2009 Minicourse: Current Concepts of Immunology
Location: Room V-10 of the RWJMS Research Tower, Busch Campus, Piscataway NJ
Time: 1:10pm-2:30pm

This course provides current concepts of immunology.  It will emphasize the organization and evolution of the immune system, the genetic basis of antibody diversity, MHC gene structure and function, development and selection of lymphocytes, lymphocyte activation, and the regulation of immune tolerance. It will also review the effector mechanisms of immune reactions, antigen-antibody reactions, cytokines, and cell-mediated immune responses.

1/17/09; ‘Introduction and History of Immunology’, Yufang Shi, Robert Wood Johnson Medical School

1/22/09; ‘Innate Immunity/Toll-like receptors’, Beverly Barton, NJ Medical School

1/24/09; ‘Hematopoiesis’, Arnold Rubin, Robert Wood Johnson Medical School

1/29/09; ‘Cells and Tissue of the Immune System’, Debra Laskin, Rutgers University & CounterACT Research Center of Excellence

1/31/09; ‘Antibody structure and antibody diversity – B-cell and T-cell receptor’, Beverly Barton, NJ Medical School

2/5/09; ‘MHC Molecules’, Alexander Izaguirre, Robert Wood Johnson Medical School

2/7/09; ‘Antigen presentation/Dendritic Cells’, Alexander Izaguirre, Robert Wood Johnson Medical School

2/12/09; ‘T-cell Development’, Guy Werlin, Rutgers University

2/14/09; ‘Lymphocyte Signal Transduction’, Arnold Rabson, Cancer Institute of New Jersey

2/19/09; ‘B-cell Development’, Lorie Covey, Rutgers University

2/21/09; ‘Complement’, Wenchao Song, University of Pennsylvania

2/26/09; ‘Interferons and Immune Response’, Sidney Pestka, Robert Wood Johnson Medical School

2/28/09; ‘Cytokine and Immune Responses’, Beverly Barton, NJ Medical School

3/5/09; ‘Type 1 and Type 2 helper cells’, Gobardhan Das, Aventis

3/7/09; ‘NK, NKT and Innate-Like T cells’, Gobardhan Das, Aventis

3/14/09; ‘Tumor Immunology’, Edmund Lattime, Cancer Institute of New Jersey

3/19/09; ‘Immune Regulation and Tolerance’, Yufang Shi, Robert Wood Johnson Medical School

3/21/09; ‘Vaccine Development’, Edmund Lattime, Cancer Institute of New Jersey

3/26/09; ‘Immunity in Infectious Diseases’, Yufang Shi, Robert Wood Johnson Medical School

3/28/09; ‘Phylogeny of the Immune System’, Yufang Shi, Robert Wood Johnson Medical School

4/2/09; ‘Mechanisms of Apoptosis and Cytotoxicity’, Yufang Shi, Robert Wood Johnson Medical School

4/9/09; ‘Immunosuppression and Transplantation’, Yufang Shi, Robert Wood Johnson Medical School

4/11/09; ‘Autoimmunity’, Leonard Sigal, Bristol-Myers Squibb

4/16/09; ‘Psychoneuroimmunology’, Alexander Kusnecov, Rutgers University

4/18/09; ‘Immunodeficiency’, Leonard Sigal, Bristol-Myers Squibb

4/23/09; ‘Allergy and Hypersensitivity’, Paulo Cesar Maciag, Advaxis, Inc.

4/25/09; ‘Transformation and Malignancy of the Immune System’, Roger Strair, Robert Wood Johnson Medical School

4/30/09; ‘Immunology Techniques’, Paulo Cesar Maciag, Advaxis, Inc.

2/11/09; Larry Norton, M.D., Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, “New Concepts Regarding the Nature of Malignancy”, 4:00 pm, CINJ Auditorium, Piscataway, NJ

2/4/09; Martin Yarmush,  Rutgers University, “Metabolic Engineering - Analysis in Traumatic Injury”, 12:00 pm, CABM 010, Busch campus, Piscataway, NJ

2/2/09 - Dr. Robert Hromas, Indiana School of Medicine, "Metnase and its role in genone stability", 12 pm, Human Genetics Institute-Auditorium, Busch campus, Piscataway, NJ

2/2/09; Leonard Lipovich,  Wayne State School of Medicine, Detroit, MI,  “Glimpsing the mammalian transcriptome's "other half:" Evolution, expression, and function of long non-protein-coding RNA”, 12:00 noon,  Life Sciences Bldg. Auditorium, Busch campus, Piscataway, NJ

1/27/09;  Marie Classon, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, “A protein identity crisis in the RB tumor suppressor pathway and a tale of resistance”, 12:00 noon, CABM 010, Busch campus, Piscataway, NJ

1/26/09;  Francisco M. De La Vega, Genetic Systems R&D LIfe Technologies, Foster City, CA,  “SOLiD Sequencing”; 12:00 noon, Life Sciences Bldg. Auditorium, Busch campus, Piscataway, NJ

1/21/09; R. Ariel Igal, M.D., Ph.D., Rutgers University, “Role of Stearoyl-CoA desaturase-1, a key lipogenic enzyme, in regulating cell proliferation and survival”; 4:00 pm, CINJ Auditorium, New Brunswick, NJ

1/20/09; Perspectives in Medicinal Chemistry: Joyce Shuman, Rutgers University, “Bioisosteric replacement in the synthesis of potent and selective CB1 and CB2 receptor targets”, 12:00 noon, Rutgers School of Pharmacy, conference room 323A

1/14/09, George Vande Woude, Ph.D., Van Andel Research Institute, Grand Rapids, Michigan, "Met and Malignant Progression" 4 pm, CINJ Auditorium, Piscataway, NJ

-12/15/08 - Dr. Robert Klein, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, "Genome-wide association studies related to cancer", 12 pm, Human Genetics Institute-Auditorium, Busch campus, Piscataway, NJ

12/11/08; Neal Zondlo, Ph.D., University of Delaware, “Design of Tunable Proteins via Phosphorylation, Electronics and Stereoelectronic Effects”, 4 pm, UMDNJ Tower, V10, Busch campus, Piscataway, NJ

12/11/08; 12 pm, Paul Kantor and William Pottenger, “Current Challenges in Search and Data Mining: The War on Terror”, DIMACS, Rutgers University, DyDAn Center, CoRE Bldg, Room 431, Rutgers University, Busch Campus, Piscataway, NJ

12/9/08; 12:00 noon, Daigo Inoyama, Ernest Mario School of Pharmacy, "Antibody Directed Prodrug Therapy"; Levine Hall, Rutgers Busch campus, Piscataway, NJ

12/08/08 - Dr. Carola Neumann, University of South Carolina, "Prdx1 inhibits tumorigenesis via regulating PTEN/AKT activity",  12 pm, Human Genetics Institute-Auditorium, Busch campus, Piscataway, NJ

12/08/2008, 12:00 pm; Gaetano Montelione, Rutgers University, “The NIH Protein Structure Initiative: Achievements and Visions for the Future”, CABM 010, Piscataway, NJ

11/30/08, Eric Weren, MS, New Jersey Department of Health and Senior Services, "Hazard communication and right-to-know",  1:30 pm,  EOHSI A&B, Busch campus, Piscataway, NJ

11/25/08; Michael Gallo, PhD, Environmental and Occupational Health Sciences Institute, "Environmental Carcinogenesis", 1:30pm,  EOHSI A&B, Busch campus, Piscataway, NJ

11/18/2008, 1:30 pm, Eric Weren, New Jersey Department of Health and Senior Services, “Hazard communication and right-to-know”, EOHSI rooms A&B, Busch Campus, Piscataway, NJ

11/17/2008, 12:00 pm; Peter E. Warburton, Mount Sinai School of Medicine, NY, “The epigenetics of human centromere formation”  Life Sciences Bldg. Auditorium, Busch Campus, Piscataway, NJ

11/14/2008; 12:00 pm; Erika Bach, New York University Medical School, “Roles of the JAK/STAT pathway in growth and stem cell self-renewal”, Waksman Bldg 1001, Busch Campus, Piscataway, NJ

11/12/2008; 12:00 pm, Vishwas Rai, Dept. Pharmaceutics, Rutgers School of Pharmacy, “Use of human skin equivalents for percutaneous absorption”, Pharmacy Building, 007, Busch Campus, Piscataway, NJ

11/05/08, Dr. Simon N. Powell,  Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center,  "The Importance of Homologous Recombinational Repair in Human Tumors: The Role of the BRCA1 and BRCA2 Tumor Suppressors",  4 pm CINJ Auditorium, New Brunswick, NJ

10/29-10/31: 9th New Jersey Symposium on Biomaterials Science and Regenerative Medicine. Hyatt Regency Hotel, New Brunswick, NJ.

Topics Include:
Blast, Burn and Crush Injuries
Biomaterials Design and Fabrication
Cell-Material Interactions Relevant to Tissue Engineering
Clinical Approaches to the Reconstruction of Bone, Tendon, Cartilage
Predictive Modeling of Cell-Material Interactions
Nerve, Muscle, Soft Tissue Regeneration and Vascularization
Skin Regeneration and Wound Healing
Protein Adsorption and Cell-Material Interactions
Allograft Cell and Tissue Transplantation
Extra-Cellular Matrices

10/28 - Sgt. Clyde Banks Jersey City Police  Special Operations Training/ Emergency Service, “First Responder Self Protection”.

10/22 - David Botstein, Princeton University, How the Genome and the Computer are Changing Biomedical Science, 4pm, CINJ Auditorium

10/21 - Sixth Annual New Jersey Office of Homeland Security Counter-Terrorism Conference, 8:30am, Trenton War Memorial, Trenton, NJ. For more information, click here.

10/21 - Dr Richard Ebright, Howard Hughes fellow and Professor of Chemistry, Waksman Institute, Rutgers U., Piscataway, NJ “Biodefense Research, NIH Role, NIH Management and Oversight of  Safety and Security of Infectious Agents.

10/16/08; Rutgers University/UMDNJ Center for Advanced Biotechnology and Medicine Symposium, Waxman Institute Auditorium, Busch Campus, Rutgers University

Program:

David Eisenberg, UCLA, "Protein-protein interactions identified by X-ray cystallography and computational biology"

Stanley Fields, University of Washington, "Development of analytical methods to identify protein function"

Clair Fraser-Liggett, University of Maryland, "Microbial communities in health and disease"

Gaetano Montelione, Rutgers University,  "NMR spectroscopy as a tool for protein engineering and structural bioinformatics"

Peter Lansbury, Harvard University, "Protein pathogenesis"

Chris Sander, Sloan-Kettering, "Frontiers in computational biology"

Jonathan Weissman, USCF, "Protein folding in the endoplasmic reticulum"  

10/9/08; Jin Montclare, Ph.D., SUNY Downstate Medical Center, “Artificial Proteins: Combining Genetic and Chemical Diversity”, 4 pm, UMDNJ Tower, V10, Busch campus, Piscataway, NJ

10/8/08; Neil Bhowmick, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, "Novel Approaches to Drug Discovery and Diagnostics", 4 pm, CINJ main auditorium, New Brunswick, NJ

10/7/08 Dr. Nancy Connell, UMDNJ-Newark, "Biological and Toxin Weapons: research at UMDNJ's Center for BioDefense, 3:30pm, Conference Room C, EOHSI, Busch Campus, Rutgers University

9/30/2008 Second Annual Skin Workshop “New Developments in Dermaceuticals and Wound Care”, 10 am - 4 pm; Center for Biomaterials, Busch campus, Piscataway, NJ

Hosts: Dr. Bozena Michniak-Kohn, Director of the Laboratory for Drug Delivery, The New Jersey Center for Biomaterials and The New Jersey Chapter of the Controlled Release Society
PROGRAM

Bruce Redding, PhD, Encapsulation Systems,"Ultrasonic Delivery Through the Skin"

Sameer Shums, Biocure,"Gelspray Liquid Bandage Development"

Jeff Berg, Hill Top Research, NJ,"Wound Healing - Evaluations in a Clinical Environment"

Mark Garrison, Avon, NY,"The Art and Science of Skin Care Formulation"

Jules Mitchel, PhD,Target Health, NY,"Developing Clinical Data Using the Internet"

Marjana Tomic-Canic, PhD, NY Hospital for Special Surgery, NY,"Biology of Wound Healing and its Pathogenesis"

9/25/08; Scott Banta, Ph.D., Department of Chemical Engineering, Columbia University; “Self-assembling enzymatic hydrogels from designed bifunctional building blocks”, 4 pm, UMDNJ Tower, V10, Busch campus, Piscataway, NJ

9/15/08, Tara Matise, Ph.D., Rutgers University, "Analysis of human chromosome 14", Genetics building, Busch campus, Rutgers University.

9/11/08; Terry Gordon, Ph.D., New York University, “The role of age and gender in the genetic susceptibility to inhaled toxicants- animal models”, EOHSI Conference room C, Busch Campus, Piscataway, NJ

9/9/8 - Ronald M. Evans, PhD, "Nuclear Receptors and Energy Metabolism", Howard Hughes Medical Institute; The Salk Institute for Biological Studies, La Jolla, California. 4pm, UMDNJ-RWJMS Auditorium, Piscataway, NJ

8/21/08 - 8/22/08; Workshop on Computational Issues in Genetic Epidemiology; DIMACS Center, CoRE building, Rutgers University, Piscataway, NJ

Thursday, August 21, 2008


 8:20 -  8:30  Welcome and Opening Remarks
               Fred Roberts, DIMACS Director

8:30 -  9:15  Incorporating "Known" Biology into
               Analysis and Interpretationof Genome-wide Association Studies
               Peter Kraft, Harvard University

9:15 - 10:00  Use of Empirical Kinship Matrices in Whole Genome Case-Control Studies
               of Disease in Stratified Populations
               Daniel Stram, University of Southern California

10:00 - 10:30  Break

10:30 - 11:00  Things to know when using Affymetrix 6.0
               Mariza de Andrade, Mayo Clinic

11:00 - 11:30  A Constrained Regression Approach for Studying
               Haplotype-Specific Effects
               Jung-Ying Tzeng, North Carolina State University

11:30 - 12:00  Fast and Robust Association Tests for Untyped SNPs in
               Case-Control Studies
               Michael Epstein, Emory University

12:00 -  1:30  Lunch

1:30 -  2:00  Computational Investigation of Gene Regulation
               Sridhar Hannenhalli, University of Pennsylvania

2:00 -  2:30  Mathematical Structure and Optimization Approaches to
               Haplotyping Problems
               Daniel Brown, University of Waterloo
         
2:30 -  3:00  Inference of Complex Genealogical Histories In Populations
               and Its Application in Mapping Complex Traits
               Yufeng Wu, University of Connecticut

3:00 -  3:30  Break

3:30 -  4:00  Multi-SNP Association Mapping using Bayesain Regression and
               Shrinkage Priors
               Yongtao Guan, University of Chicago

4:00 -  4:30  On a Method to Estimate the Number of Unseen Variants in the
               Human Genome
               Iuliana Ionita, Harvard University

4:30 -  5:00  Linkage Disequilibrium Based Single Individual Genotyping
               from Low-Coverage Short Sequencing Reads
               Justin Kennedy, University of Connecticut
            
5:30          Dinner at DIMACS

Friday, August 22, 2008


 8:30 -  9:15  New Haplotype Sharing Method for Genome-Wide Case-Control
               Association Studies Implicates Gene for Parkinson's Disease
               Glen Satten, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

9:15 - 10:00  Calibrating the Performance of SNP Arrays for Whole-Genome Association Studies
               John Storey, Princeton University
              
10:00 - 10:30  Break

10:30 - 11:00  The Genetics of Quantitative Traits: what has Changed since
               R.A. Fisher?
               Chiara Sabatti, UCLA

11:00 - 11:30  Increasing Power in Association Studies by using Linkage Disequilibrium
               Structure and Molecular Function as Prior Information
               Eleazar Eskin, UCLA

11:30 - 12:00  Genome-Phenome Association: Computational Challenges and new Algorithms
               Eric Xing, Carnegie Mellon University
            
12:00 -  1:30  Lunch

1:30 -  2:00  Estimating Local Ancestry in Admixed Populations
               Eran Halperin, International Computer Science Institute

2:00 -  2:30  Whole Population, Genomewide Mapping of Hidden Relatedness
               Itsik Pe'er, Columbia University
           
2:30 -  3:00  Inferring Ancestry Efficiently in Admixed Populations
               Sivan Bercovici, Technion

3:00 -  3:30  Reconstructing Sibling Relationships from Microsatellite Data
               Tanya Berger-Wolf, University of Illinois at Chicago

There is strong evidence that genes play a major role in susceptibility to all common human diseases. While linkage analysis has been very successful in finding the genes involved in Mendelian diseases such as Huntington disease, early onset Alzheimer's disease and cystic fibrosis, current interest has shifted towards mapping genes involved in diseases with complex etiologies such as diabetes and cancer, for which association studies have been shown to be more powerful. The workshop will bring together computer scientists, geneticists, and statisticians aiming to address current computational challenges in gene mapping, which include dealing with complex missing data patterns, multiple hypotheses testing, population substructure, gene-gene and gene-environment interactions. New directions of research, such as capturing the effects of structural genomic variation and using biological networks in whole-genome studies, will also be investigated.

8/11/08 - Dr. Tuula Kallunki, Apoptosis Department, Institute of Cancer Biology, Danish Cancer Society, Denmark. "Functional Identification of Signaling Pathways Regulating ErbB2 Mediated Cell Growth", 12pm, RWJMS, Room V-10.

8/4/08: Dr. Ning Sun, Biostatistics Division, Yale School of Public Health, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, CT: "Regression models for dissecting transcriptional regulatory network", 12 pm, Life Sciences Bldg Auditorium, 145 Bevier Rd., Busch Campus.

7/17/2008; 12 pm, Wenlai Zhou, University of California, Histone ubiquitination in inflammation and cancer, CABM 010, Busch campus, Piscataway, NJ

7/14/2008; 4 pm, Amale Laouar, Harvard Medical School, Innate immunity of a novel mucosal-specific antigen presenting cell type; CABM 010, Busch campus, Piscataway, NJ

6/28/08; Dr. Jianlong Wang, Children's Hospital, Boston, MA, “Biochemical Basis and Regulatory Circuitry for Pluripotency of Embryonic Stem Cells” 4:00 pm, CABM 010, Busch campus, Rutgers University

6/25/08 - Drs. Gary Grover and Richard Kronenthal, Eurofins-Product Safety Labs//Orthocon, Inc. “Trends in the Pharmaceutical Industry//Medical Device Commercialization--Past, Present, and Future”; 12:00 pm, CABM 010, Busch campus, Rutgers University

6/10/08; 10am-3pm, UMDNJ/Rutgers CounterACT Sulfur Mustard Symposium; EOHSI Conference Room C, Rutgers Busch Campus, Piscataway, NJ

10:00 - 10:45am; Jeffrey D. Laskin, Ph.D., UMDNJ-Robert Wood Johnson Medical School, “Overview of Ongoing Research at the UMDNJ-Rutgers Sulfur Mustard CounterACT Research Center”

10:45-11:30 am; Debra L. Laskin, Ph.D., School of Pharmacy, Rutgers University, ”Mechanisms of Sulfur Mustard Lung Toxicity”

11:30- 1:00 pm; Lunch and round table discussion; moderator, Otto Mills, Department of Medicine, UMDNJ-Robert Wood Johnson Medical School

 1:00- 1:30 pm; Donald Gerecke, Ph.D., School of Pharmacy, Rutgers University, “ Countermeasures for sulfur mustard poisoning: A cocktail anyone?  A seminar sponsored by the New Jersey Skin Club.

 1:30- 2:30 pm;  Alireza Hosseini- Khalili, MD, University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT/ Janbazan Medical and Engineering Research Center, Tehran, Iran, “Sulfur Mustard Lung- Latest Findings on Long-Term Respiratory Effects of Mustard Gas: Experiences of the Iranians”  A seminar sponsored by Clinical Research and Occupational Medicine Grand Rounds in EOHSI.   

 2:30- 3:30 pm; Breakout session, moderator, Paul Lioy, Ph.D., Department of Environmental and Occupational Medicine, UMDNJ-Robert Wood Johnson Medical School, “Exposure Assessment following Sulfur Mustard Exposures; Concepts in Dose Exposure Modeling”

6/10/08; Alireza Hosseini- Khalili, M.D., University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT/ Janbazan Medical and Engineering Reseach Center, Tehran, Iran, “Mustard Lung- Latest Findings on Long-Term Respiratory Effects of Mustard Gas: Experiences of Iranians; 1:30 pm, conference room A/B, Busch Campus, Piscataway, NJ

Mustard gas was a widely used chemical warfare agent during World War I and more recently in the Iran-Iraq. As a highly toxic alkylating agent, MG causes severe dermal, respiratory and ocular injuries. Iran is the only country in the world with a large population of patients still suffering from exposure to chemical warfare agents. According to official medical records, more than 50,000 of Iranians are suffering from late complications of mustard gas exposure, mainly in respiratory system. This presentation will review briefly late respiratory complications of mustard gas and discuss clinical and para-clinical findings including: pathology, radiology, PFT, bronchoscopy, and treatment strategies.

6/9/8 - BioMaPS Institute for Quantitative Biology - Mathematical Biology Symposium- Rutgers Biological Physics

June 9:  Chromatin structure and genomic studies of chromatin

Session Chair: Vincent Pirrotta, Rutgers University

9:20 - 9:30 AM: Alexandre Morozov & Vasily Studitsky - Introduction and welcoming remarks
9:30 - 10:30 AM: Kevin Struhl (KEYNOTE SPEAKER, Harvard Medical School) “Transcriptional regulatory mechanisms and epigenetic inheritance”
10:30 - 12:00 Noon: Jeff Hayes* (University of Rochester Medical Center) "Intra- and inter-nucleosome interactions of the core histone tail domains"
12:00 - 1:30 PM: Lunch Break
1:30 - 2:30 PM: Vincent Pirrotta (Rutgers University) "Polycomb mechanisms and genomic programming"
2:30 - 3:30 PM: Frank Pugh (Penn State University) "Organization of chromatin and the transcription machinery throughout the yeast and fly genomes"
3:30 -3:45 PM: Break
3:45 - 4:45 PM Jason Lieb (University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill) "Chromatin-mediated mechanisms for the regulation of genome accessibility in yeast, worms, and humans"

June 10: Computational modeling of chromatin states

9:30 - 10:00 AM: Swagatam Mukhopadhyay* (Rutgers University) "Introduction to the polymer physics of chromatin"
10:00 - 11:00 AM:Anirvan Sengupta (Rutgers University) "Epigenetic chromatin silencing"
11:00 - 12:00 Noon:Wilma Olson & Guohui Zheng (Rutgers University) "Flexing and Folding of nucleosome-bound DNA"
12:00 - 1:30 PM: Lunch Break
1:30 - 2:30 PM: Alexandre Morozov (Rutgers University) "Biophysical models of chromatin structure and gene regulation"
2:30 - 3:30 PM: Victor Zhurkin (NIH) "A new model for the linker histone binding based on comparative sequence analysis of chicken and yeast nucleosomal DNA"
3:30 - 3:45 PM: Break
3:45 - 4:45 PM: Guocheng Yuan (Harvard School of Public Health)"Prediction of nucleosome positions"

June 11: Histone modifications and signaling

9:30 - 11:00 AM: Sergei Grigoryev (Penn State University College of Medicine) “Inter-nucleosome interactions in chromatin higher-order packing”
11:00- 12:00 Noon: Patrick Grant (University of Virginia) "The SAGA of Histone Modifications"
12:00 - 1:30 PM: Lunch Break
1:30 - 2:30 PM: Sepideh Khorasanizadeh (University of Virginia) “Diversity in Chromatin Docking Interactions of Chromodomains”
2:30 - 3:30 PM: Ruth Steward (Rutgers University) "Functional importance of Histone H4K20 methylation"
3:30 -5:30 PM: Poster Session

June 12: Chromatin remodeling and transitions

9:30 - 11:00 AM: David Clark* (NIH) "Gene Activation in Yeast: Chromatin Remodeling and Nucleosome Dynamics"
11:00 - 12:00 Noon: Vasily Studitsky (UMDNJ) “Mechanism of nucleosome survival and chromatin remodeling during transcription by Pol II”
12:00 - 1:30 PM: Lunch Break
1:30 - 2:30 PM: Blaine Bartholomew (Southern Illinois University School of Medicine) “Mechanism of ATP-dependent chromatin remodeling: lessons from ISW2 and SWI/SNF”
2:30 - 3:30 PM: Paul Kaufman (University of Massachusetts Medical School) “Histone Modification, Deposition, and Turnover”
3:30 - 3:45 PM: Break
3:45 - 4:45 PM: Thomas Kusch (Rutgers University) “Mix and Match: Landscaping Chromatin during Transcription”

June 13: Programming functional chromatin states

9:30 - 10:30 AM: Gary Felsenfeld (NIH) “The establishment and maintenance of chromatin boundaries”
10:30 - 10:45 AM: Break
10:45 - 11:45 AM: Marc Gartenberg (UMDNJ) "The Rise and Fall of Models for Heterochromatin Establishment"
11:45 - 12:45 PM: Dmitry Fyodorov (Albert Einstein College of Medicine) “ATP-dependent chromatin assembly”
12:45 - 1:00 PM: Alexandre Morozov & Vasily Studitsky: Closing Remarks

6/1/08 - 6/6/08 - Bioscience Review 2008. Baltimore Marriott Hunt Valley Inn, Hunt Valley, Maryland.

Topics include:
Bioscavengers and Biotechnology
Therapeutics
Cutaneous and Ocular Therapeutics/Vesicant Countermeasures
Forensics/Diagnostics
Clinical Perspectives of Chemical Exposures
Partnerships, Collaborations, and Consultations

5/30/08; Peter R. Holt, M.D., Rockefeller University; “Chemistry applied to human disease”; 10:30 am, room 200, Rutgers School of Pharmacy, Busch campus, Piscataway, NJ

5/28/08; 3:00 pm, Dr. Stephen Friend, Executive Vice President, Oncology, Merck Research Laboratories, Merck & Co., Inc, “Innovations in New Drug Development Through Translational Research; Main auditorium; UMDNJ-Robert Wood Johnson Medical School, Piscataway, NJ

5/28/08; 11:00 am, Dr. David Allis, Laboratory of Chromatin Biology, The Rockefeller University;  “Beyond the Double Helix: Writing and Reading the "Histone Code"; Main auditorium; UMDNJ-Robert Wood Johnson Medical School, Piscataway, NJ

5/16/08-5/21/08 - American Thoracic Society International Meeting - Toronto, Canada Look for our research to be presented at this annual meeting.

5/15/08; Paul Talalay, M.D. The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, “Chemoprevention of disease: a strategy whose time has come”; 4:00 pm, room C; Environmental & Occupational Health Sciences Institute, Busch Campus, Piscataway, NJ

5/14/08 - James Manley Columbia University Mechanisms of post-transcriptional gene control Wednesday, May 14, 2008 12:00 CABM 010

5/7/08; 1:00 pm. Frank J. Gonzalez, Ph.D., National Cancer Institute, “Mechanism of Action of Non-Genotoxic Carcinogens”, Elizabeth C. Miller and James A. Miller Distinguished Lecture Series on Cancer, Rutgers Pharmacy Building, room 111, Busch campus, Piscataway, NJ

5/06/08, 12:00 pm; Dr. Hays Rye, Princeton University,”Molecular chaperones in protein folding and endocytosis”, CABM 010, Busch campus, Rutgers University, Piscataway, NJ

5/01/08; 1:00 pm; Elizabeth Schonauer, DNA Genotek, ‘Overview of DNA and RNA collection methods, CINJ Auditorium, New Brunswick, NJ

4/30-5/1 - ebCTC Annual Symposium on Systems Toxicology. EOHSI, Rutgers, Piscataway, NJ.

Wednesday, April 30

09:30 - 10:30 AM	Registration and Setup
10:30 - 10:40 AM	Welcome and introduction Dr. William J. Welsh (UMDNJ-RWJMS)
10:40 - 10:50 AM	Introductory remarks and USEPA perspective Ms. Deborah Segal (USEPA-ORD)
10:50 - 11:00 AM	Introductory remarks and EOHSI perspective Dr. Kenneth Reuhl (Rutgers University)
11:00 - 11:45 AM	A multiscale framework for environmental systems toxicology Dr. Panos G. Georgopoulos (UMDNJ-RWJMS)
11:45 - 12:30 PM	The Virtual Liver Project: Modeling tissue response to chemicals through multiscale simulation Dr. Imran Shah (USEPA-NCCT)
12:30 - 01:30 PM	Lunch
01:30 - 02:15 PM	Genetic and environmental pathways to complex diseases Dr. Reuben Thomas (NIH-NIEHS)
02:15 - 03:00 PM	Dissecting flux changes in mammalian cells: Application to understanding viral infection Dr. Joshua Rabinowitz (Princeton University)
03:00 - 03:45 PM	The Virtual Embryo Project (v-EmbryoTM) Dr. Thomas Knudsen (USEPA-NCCT)
03:45 - 04:00 PM	Coffee Break
04:00 - 04:45 PM	Computational modeling of liver function Dr. Charles Roth (Rutgers University)
04:45 - 05:30 PM	Computational toxicology: New methods and models at the molecular level Dr. Sean Ekins (UMDNJ-RWJMS)
05:30 - 06:30 PM	Poster Session Highlight “Gene expression studies of mouse skin response to sulfur mustard exposure for evaluating efficacy of inhibitors” Dr. Donald R. Gerecke, UMDNJ/Rutgers University CounterACT Research Center of Excellence
06:30 - 07:30 PM	Dinner
07:30 - 08:15 PM	Keynote Address: There is no place like "-ome" Dr. Daniel Casciano (USFDA-NCTR, Retired)

Thursday, May 1

08:30 - 09:00 AM	Registration
09:00 - 09:45 AM	The EPA ToxCast Program Dr. Richard Judson (USEPA-NCCT)
09:45 - 10:15 AM	Toxicogenomics: Technology, application and challenges Dr. Weida Tong (USFDA-NCTR)
10:15 - 10:30 AM	Coffee Break
10:30 - 11:15 AM	Computational toxicology from a cheminformatics perspective Dr. William J. Welsh (UMDNJ-RWJMS)
11:15 - 12:00 PM	Discovery in proteomics: De novo and hybrid methods via tandem mass spectrometry Dr. Christodoulos A. Floudas (Princeton University)
12:00 - 01:30 PM	Lunch and Poster Session
01:30 - 02:15 PM	From data to models: Systems toxicology linkages to toxicoinformatics Dr. Ioannis Androulakis (Rutgers University)
02:15 - 03:15 PM	Panel Discussion
3:15-3:30 PM	Concluding remarks and adjournment

4/29/2008; 12:00 pm, Disha Patel, Ernest Mario School of Pharmacy, ‘Structure-activity relationships by NMR: an approach to fragment based drug design’; room 323A, Pharmacy building, Busch campus.

4/21/08; 12:00 pm; San Ming Wang, Feinberg School of Medicine, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL, "Studying Human Genome Structure at Kilobase Resolution"

Normal genome variation and pathogenic genome alteration frequently affect small regions in the genome. We have developed the DGS (Ditag Genome Scanning) platform for kilobase-resolution analysis of genome structure. Analyzing five normal and cancer genomes using this platform reveals new patterns of normal genome variation and cancer genome mutation.

4/16/08; 12:00 pm; Sherif Ibrahim, Rutgers School of Pharmacy, ‘The Warburg effect and glycolysis inhibition’, Pharmacy, room 007, Busch campus.

4/14-4/16 - CounterACT Annual progress meeting, Embassy Suites, 900 10th St. NW, Washington D.C..

4/14/08; 12:00 pm; Dr. Titia de Lange, Rockefeller University, “Protein complexes that shape and safe-guard human telomeres”; Waksman Institute, Busch campus, Rutgers University.

4/11/08; 1:30 pm; Sung Hack Lee, Pharmaceutical Sciences, Rutgers University, “Characterizing the mechanism of differential pharmacokinetic disposition of two structurally similar nucleosides”; room 007, School of Pharmacy Building.

4/11/08; 12:00 pm, Michael B. Weinstein, Ph.D., Ohio State University, "Functions of TGF-beta signaling in development and diseases", Room B228, Nelson Labs, Busch campus, Piscataway, NJ

4/9/08, 3 pm, Nobel Laureate Dr. Matthew Meselson; Harvard University, "Mechanisms of cell replication", UMDNJ-RWJMS, main auditorium, Piscataway, NJ

4/9/08; 12:00 pm, Zedong Dong, Ph.D., Hoffman-La Roche, “Applications of physico-chemical characterization in drug development”, room 007, Rutgers University School of Pharmacy, Busch campus, Piscataway.

4/08/08; David J. Moore, Ph.D., International Specialty Products, Wayne, NJ, “Spectroscopy, Microscopy and Imaging of the Skin Barrier”, EOHSI Building, Rutgers Busch campus, Piscataway, NJ.

4/08/08, 4:00 pm; CounterACT is participating in the UMDNJ-Robert Wood Johnson Medical School Center for Clinical and Translational Sciences Symposium

4/3/08 - CounterACT Center meeting, 2-4 pm, 402 EOHSI.

4/02/08; 12:00 pm; Yong-Hae Han, Ph.D., Bristol-Myers Squibb, “Transporter Phenotyping in Drug Discovery”, room 007, Rutgers School of Pharmacy, Busch campus, Piscataway, NJ

3/27/08; 3:00 pm; Debra Laskin, Rutgers School of Pharmacy, ‘The lung as a target for sulfur mustard toxicity’, EOHSI, 402, Busch campus.

3/26/08, 3 pm; Dr. David L. Rimm, Yale University School of Medicine, "Biomarker discovery by quantitative and multiplexed analysis of tissue microarrays", CINJ auditorium

3/25/08; 1:30 pm; Glenn Paulson, Ph.D., UMDNJ School of Public Health, Chemical control: near miss disasters; EOHSI A&, Busch campus, Rutgers, Piscataway, NJ

3/21/08; 12:00 pm, William Marzluff, Ph.D., University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, “Novel mechanisms in histone mRNA metabolism; Room B228, Nelson Labs, Busch campus, Piscataway.

3/16/08 - 3/20/08 - Society of Toxicology National Meeting in Seattle, WA. Many individuals from our Center will be presenting research at this symposium.

3/16/08-3/19/08 - International Conference on Emerging and Infectious Diseases. Atlanta, GA. [link]

3/14/08 - Symposium: “Wound Healing and Tissue Engineering” 2:30-4:00 pm. Room 120 Busch Campus Center.

Sheila Macneil, Ph.D., Professor of Tissue Engineering, University of Sheffield in the UK
Research interests: Progress and opportunities for tissue-engineered skin

Ewa Herbst, Ph.D., President and CEO, Herbst Research, Edgewater, NJ
Research interests: Use of electric fields to stimulate tissue healing and regeneration

Michael Jaffe, Ph.D., Research Professor Biomedical Engineering, NJIT
Research interests: Development of novel biomaterials for wound healing

Ramsey Foty, Ph.D., Assistant Professor of Surgery, UMDNJ-RWJMS
Research interests: Cell-cell cohesion and cell-substratum adhesion in tissue-biomaterial interaction

Charles Gatt, M.D., Chair of Orthopaedics, UMDNJ-RWJMS
Research interests: Clinical perspectives on tissue engineering

Debabrata Banerjee, Ph.D., Associate Professor, Medicine and Pharmacology, UMDNJ-RWJMS
Research interests: Stem cells in wound healing and regeneration

3/12/08; 12 pm; Dr. Elaine Ostrander, NIH, “Genetic Mapping of Complex Traits” CABM 010, Rutgers Busch campus, Piscataway, NJ

3/12/08; 12:00 pm; Anjaneya Chimalakonda, Ph.D., Bristol-Myers Squibb, Pharmacokinetic/pharmacodynamic models to predict drug efficacy following short term therapy”, room 007, Rutgers School of Pharmacy, Piscataway, NJ

3/10/08; 12 pm; Dr. Rajesh Ranganathan, Novartis Institutes for BioMedical Research, “Drug Discovery Challenges”, Auditorium, Rutgers Life Sciences Bldg, Busch campus, Piscataway, NJ

3/5/08; 5:00 pm, Louis J. Lombardo, Ph.D., Director, Oncology Chemistry, Bristol-Myers Squibb, Lawerenceville, NJ, “Preclinical studies with a potent multi-targeted kinase inhibitor”, Rutgers School of Pharmacy, room 007, Busch campus

3/3/08; 12 pm; Jianjie Ma, Ph.D., UMDNJ-Robert Wood Johnson Medical School, Calcium transients in cell growth regulation, V10 UMDNJ, Busch campus, Piscataway, NJ

2/25/08; 12 pm; Thomas Scanlin, M.D., UMDNJ-RWJMS, ‘Therapeutic Implication of Altered Glycosylation’; Robert Wood Johnson Medical School, Piscataway, NJ, Busch campus, room V10.

2/26/08 - Richard Carthew Northwestern University Mechanism and Biology of Small Regulatory RNAs Tuesday, February 26, 2008 16:00 Waksman Auditorium

2/24/08-2/27/08 - 6th Annual ASM Biodefense and Emerging Diseases Research Meeting, Baltimore, MD. [link]

2/21/08; 12:00 pm; Joan Durbin M.D., Ph.D., Ohio State University College of Medicine, Rodent models of human airway disease, CABM 010, Piscataway, NJ

2/20/08; 4 pm; David Williams, M.D. Children's Hospital Boston, Rac and Rho H as mediators of cell growth regulation; CINJ Auditorium, New Brunswick, NJ

2/18/08; 12 noon, Carlo Croce, MD, Ohio State University Comprehensive Cancer Center, "Role of microRNAs in cell growth regulation", Auditorium A, Cancer Institute of New Jersey, New Brunswick, NJ

2/18/2008; 12:00 pm,  William J. Welsh, Ph.D., Dept. Molecular and Cellular Pharmacology, UMDNJ-Robert Wood Johnson Medical School; “Computational Approaches to Drug Discovery”, second floor conference room, Laboratory for Cancer Research, Rutgers School of Pharmacy, Busch campus, Piscataway, NJ

2/15/08; 12:00 pm; Iannis Aifantis, Ph.D., New York University School of Medicine, Regulation of stem cell self-renewal by the ubiquitin ligase Fbw7; Nelson B228, Busch campus, Rutgers, Piscataway, NJ

2/11/08 - Alexandra C. Newton, Ph.D., Professor, Department of Pharmacology, UCSD. "Signal Termination: PHLiPPing the Switch in Akt and Protein Kinase C Signaling", 12pm, Room V-10, RWJMS, New Brunswick, NJ.

2/7/08 - CounterACT Center meeting, 2-4 pm, 402 EOHSI.

2/7/08 - Marcia Slater, Ph.D., Applied Biosystems; “Real-Time PCR without RNA purification from Cells”, CINJ Main Auditorium, New Brunswick, NJ

2/6/08, 4 PM; Peter P. Tolias, Ph.D., New Jersey Medical School, Translational Research at the Institute of Genomic Medicine, CINJ, Main Auditorium

2/06/2008; Dr. David Botstein, Princeton University, “Transcriptional and physiological responses to differences in growth rate”; 12:00 CABM 010

1/29/08, 11:00 a.m., Dr. Tatiana Bronich, University of Nebraska Medical Center; "Polymer micelles as nanocarriers for drugs and imaging age" Chemistry Bldg seminar room, Busch campus, Piscataway, NJ

1/29/08 - Dr. Gregory Hannon Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Conserved roles of small RNAs in genome defense Tuesday, January 29, 2008 12:00 CABM 010

1/28/08 - Dr. Paul McNeil, Medical College of Georgie, "Cell Membrane Repair", 12pm, RWJMS Piscataway, Room V10.

1/22/08; Max Garzon, Ph.D., Computer Science, The University of Memphis, “Synthetic Biology for Bioinformatics” 3:30 pm, Room 402, EOHSI,  RWJ Medical School, Busch Campus, Piscataway, N.J.

1/18/08 - Dr. Yufang Shi, "Regulation of Immune Responses by AICD and Stem Cells"; CABM, Room 010, 9:30am

1/14/2008; Dr. Rajesh Ranganathan, Novartis Institutes for BioMedical Research, ‘Meeting the drug discovery challenge’;12:00 Genetics Inst. Auditorium

1/11/08; 12:00 pm, Dr. Guy Werlen, Rutgers University, “Role of ERK signaling in T lymphocyte development”, Room B228, Nelson Labs, Busch campus, Piscataway, NJ

1/10/08 - External Advisory Committee Board meeting, EOHSI Conference Room C, 8:30am to 5 pm. Drs. Carl Baker and David Jett will be attending.

1/9/08 - Dr. David Jett, National Institute of Health - NINDS, "Counterterrorism Research at the National institutes of Health"; 4pm, EOHSI conference room C.

1/8/08 - CounterACT Center meeting, 2-4 pm, 402 EOHSI.

1/7/2008; 2:00 PM; Noon; Cancer Center Building - G1196, "Identification of steps in cell cycle progression of normal and cancer cells controlled by Rho GTPases”, Alan Hall, Ph.D., Chair, Cell Biology Program, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center

1/3/08 - Dr. Peter James O'Dwyer, M.D., Professor of Medicine, "Translational studies on the targeting of anti-angiogenesis drugs". Thursday, January 3, 2008, 12pm, CABM 010.

12/19/07 - Mary-Ann Bjornsit, Ph.D. St. Jude's Children Research Hospital TOR Signaling in S-phase Wednesday, December 19, 2007 16:00 CINJ Auditorium

12/18/07, Yury S. Polikanov, Department of Pharmacology, UMDNJ-Robert Wood Johnson Medical School, Mechanims of Communication over a Distance on DNA and Chromatin, 12:00 NOON, RWJMS, room V-10, Piscataway

12/17/07;  Yong Wan, Ph.D.  Cell Biology and Physiology, University of Pittsburgh, School of Medicine "Control of the cell cycle"; 2:00 pm, RWJMS-Room V10, Piscataway, NJ

11/30/07 - Debra L. Laskin, Department of Pharmacology & Toxicology, Rutgers University, Role of Inflammatory Mediators in Sulfur Mustard-induced Lung Injury, 2:00 pm, EOHSI building, conference room C, Piscataway

11/28/07 - Thermodynamics of Force-Induced DNA-ligand Interactions" - Mark C. Williams, Northeastern University. 1:30 pm at 260 Hill Center (Busch Campus).

11/20/07 - "Coordinating DNA repair with cell cycle progression" -Matthew O'Connell, Ph.D., Mount Sinai School of Medicine. 12pm at 10 CABM, RWJMS.

11/15/07; Dr. Thomas Kensler, Johns Hopkins University “Mechanisms of cellular responses to oxidative stress”, 2:00 P.M. seminar; EOHSI Building room C, Busch campus of Rutgers University,

11/15/07; Nobel Laureate Dr. Robert H. Grubbs, Caltech, ‘Synthesis of large and small molecules using olefin metathesis catalysts’, 4 pm Wright Laboratory, Busch Campus, Rutgers University

11/14/07 - Dr. Jeffrey D. Laskin, UMDNJ-Robert Wood Johnson Medical School; 2:00 P.M. plenary talk for the Dermal Clinical Evaluation Society; “Developing skin active agents against sulfur mustard:  The Rutgers/UMDNJ CounterACT Research Center of Excellence”; Teaneck Marriott, Teaneck, NJ

11/6/07 - Robert Ross, Department of Homeland Security, "Managing Homeland Security Risk: A New Approach", 5-6pm, DIMACS Center, CoRE Bldg 431, Rutgers, Piscataway, NJ.

11/6/07 - Rashmi Thakur - "Design of Polymeric drug delivery system providing targeted drug release profiles of hydrophilic and lipophilic compounds." 10am-12pm, 202, Laboratory for Cancer Research.

11/5/07-11/7/07 - 2007 Biodefense Research Conference. Bridging the gap: Biodefense and Beyond. Philadelphia, PA. [link]

10/24/07 "Method Development and Validation Strategies for Quantitative LC/MS/MS" - Wei Zhou, Ph.D., Lab Head, Drug Metabolism & Bioanalytics, Novarti. Room 007, Pharmacy Building, 12-1:30pm.

10/23/07 - "Models of Gene Regulation" - Tomas Gedeon, Montana State University. 12 pm in 260 Hill Center (Busch Campus).

10/17/07 - "The Future of Genomic Medicine: From Dr. Freud to Dr. McCoy" - Edward Russel Dougherty, Texas A&M University. 1:30pm at 260 Hill Center (Busch Campus).

10/16/07 - "Hydrophobic Hydration at the Nanoscale" - Peter Rossky, University of Texas at Austin. 11 am, Wright-Reiman Auditorium (Busch Campus).

10/17/7 - The UMDNJ/Rutgers University CounterACT Center Research Center of Excellence is participating in a Preparedness Symposium on issues in Terrorism organized by the New Jersey Preparedness Training Consortium to be held at the Rutgers University School of Pharmacy in Piscataway, NJ, October 17, 2007 [registration]

When Terrorism Strikes - How a Pharmacist can Save the World"

8:15 – 8:30                    Welcome and Introduction (Dr. Benjamin Chavez, Rutgers University School of Pharmacy, NJ)

8:30 – 9:30                    New Developments in Bioterrorism Agents (Dr. Clifton Lacy, UMDNJ-Robert Wood Johnson Medical School, NJ)

9:30 -10:30                    Chemical Agents in Terrorism (Dr. Kevin Rynn, Rutgers University School of Pharmacy, NJ)

10:30-10:45                   Break

10:45-11:35                   Psychology of Bioterrorism (Dr. Sajjad Zaidi, Monmouth Medical Center, NJ)

11:35-12:45                   lunch

12:45-1:35                     Command and Control (Dr. Joseph Barone, Rutgers University School of Pharmacy, NJ)

1:35-2:25                       Pharmacist’s Role and Response (Mr. Richard Palombo, Medco Health Solutions, NJ)

2:25-2:40                       Break

2:40-3:30                       Application of Legal Issues During a Bioterrorism Event (Dr. Angelo Cifaldi, Rutgers University School of Pharmacy, NJ)

3:30-3:45                       Questions and Evaluation

10/8/07-10/10/07 - Defense Against the Effects of Chemical Hazards: Toxicology, Diagnosis, and Medical Countermeasures, Edinburgh, Scotland. Sponsored by the Research and Technology Organization of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. [link]

10/10/07 - "The Role of Sequence-specific DNA Structure in Gene Regulation" - Remo Rohs, Columbia University. 1:30pm, 260 Hill Center (Busch Campus).

8/31/07 - 9am-1pm - "Rehearsals for CounterACT External Advisory Committee", Piscataway, NJ

8/28-8/30 - "CounterACT Research Center Symposium on Exposures to Highly Toxic Chemicals", Piscataway, NJ (Drs. Joshua Gray and Diane E. Heck, program coordinators)

8/27/07 - 12pm-4pm; Preparation and Evaluations for the Fall 2007 - Spring 2008 CounterACT Course Programs sponsored by the CounterACT Research and Training Core (Drs. Joshua P. Gray and Diane E. Heck, Core Directors), Piscataway, NJ

8/16/07 - Annual UMDNJ/Rutgers University CounterACT Center retreat. 216 Lillie Building, Marine Biological Laboratory, Woods Hole, MA. 12pm-4pm.

7/29/2007-8/4/2007 - Data Analysis in Law Enforcement and Homeland Security. This Summer Reconnect Conference sponsored by DyDAn (The Homeland Security Center for Dynamic Data Analysis). [link]

6/25-6/27 - Statistical Analysis of Analytical Data. Summer short-course, New Brunswick, NJ. [link]

6/26-6/28 - Experimental Design for Productivity & Quality in R&D. Summer short-course, New Brunswick, NJ. [link]

6/20/07 - Symposium on Modeling for Exposures to Highly Toxic Chemicals. Sponsors: American Chemistry Council and EOHSI Chemical Chemodynamics Laboratory. Rutgers University, EOHSI building, 9am-5pm, Conference Room C, Piscataway, NJ.

Topics and Speakers: ' Inhalation Exposure Modeling’ Panos Georgopoulos, UMDNJ; ‘Exposure Research and Modeling at the EPA’, John Langstaff, Janet Burke, USEPA; ‘New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection Air Monitoring Network’, Linda Bonanno, NJDEP; ‘Modeling Population Exposures, Sastry Isukapalli, EOHSI; ‘Developing Exposure Databases’; Cliff Weisel, Shang-Wei Wang; EOHSI.

6/16/07 - 10:30 AM-4:00 PM, TriState CACS 2007 Annual Symposium co-sponsored by the Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Rutgers University School of Pharmacy, “Chemistry Frontiers, Challenges and Opportunities”, A symposium on the development of small molecules by the pharmaceutical industry including drug screening and lead optimization (www.tristatecacs.org), Rutgers University Fiber Optic Auditorium, Busch Campus, Piscataway, NJ

6/14/07 - Andrew Gow, Ph.D., Associate Professor, Department of Pharmacology & Toxicology, Ernest Mario School of Pharmacy, Rutgers University. "Nitric oxide and innate immunity: how do we get so much from so little?" 11:30am, Laboratory of Cancer Research, Rutgers School of Pharmacy.

6/1/2007 - Joshua P. Gray, Ph.D., UMDNJ-Rutgers University CounterACT Research Center of Excellence. "Chemical Terrorism: the lung as a target." Sponsored by the New Jersey Thoracic Society. 10 am, Room 1302, Clinical Academic Building, UMDNJ-Robert Wood Johnson Medical School.

5/31/2007-6/1/2007 - Workshop: The Mathematics of Homeland Security: Topics for High School Teachers. DIMACS Center - Rutgers. [link]

5/23/2007-5/24/2007 - The IEEE International Conference on Intelligence and Security Informatics 2007. Hyatt Hotel, New Brunswick, NJ. Dr. Jeffrey D. Laskin, P.I. for the UMDNJ/Rutgers University CounterACT Research Center of Excellence will participate in a panel on “Preparedness for and Response to High-Consequence Events” that will be moderated by Dr. Paul J. Lioy, Professor and Deputy Director of the Environmental and Occupational Health Sciences Institute at UMDNJ/Rutgers University [link]

5/11/2007 - Leonard A. Cole, Ph.D, Rutgers University, Newark. "Terror Medicine" 12:30pm, Room 280, Carl Icahn Laboratory, Princeton, NJ.

5/4/2007 - Jonathan B. Chaires, Ph.D. "Five Decades (almost) of Drug-DNA Interactions." 12pm at the Fiber Optics Auditorium, Busch Campus, Rutgers University.

5/4/2007 - Arturo Casadevall, Ph.D., Yeshiva University. "The Weapon Potential of a Microbe and the Select Agents Act". 12:30pm, Room 280, Carl Icahn Laboratory, Princeton, NJ.

5/3/2007 - Daniel Krewsski, Ph.D., Institute of Population Health, University of Ottawa. "Population Health Risk Assessment". 12pm, Conference Room C, EOHSI Building, Busch Campus, Rutgers University, Piscataway, NJ.

4/27/2007 - The Environmental Bioinformatics and Computational Toxicology Center at Rutgers is sponsoring a "Systems Toxicology" full day workshop, from 8:30am - 3:30pm at the CoRE Building Auditorium, Rutgers Busch Campus. For information, register here.

4/25/2007-4/27/2007 - The first annual CounterACT Network Research Symposium will take place from April 25-27 in Arlington VA. This meeting will facilitate information sharing and collaboration between investigators in the CounterACT Network and serve as a progress evaluation for the NIH. For news and information on registration for the CounterACT - Countermeasures Against Chemical Terrorism Annual meeting, see here [link].

4/24/07 - Thomas H. Rushmore, Ph.D., Drug Metabolism (Preclinical), Merck Research Laboratory, West Point, PA. "Application of pharmacogenetics in drug discovery and development: experiences in drug metabolism" Room 323A, Rutgers School of Pharmacy, 12pm.

4/11/2007-4/12/2007 - Short Course: A Field Guide to Gen Bank and NCBI Molecular Biology Resources. DIMACS Center - Rutgers. [link]

4/6/2007 - Robert P. Casillas, Ph.D., Deputy Director, Battelle Biomedical Research Center, Battelle Memorial Institute, Columbus, OH, April 6, 12:30, EOHSI room 402 “Mechanism of action of sulfur mustard”.  

4/2/2007 - Dr. Helmut Zarbl, Ph.D., UMDNJ-Robert Wood Johnson Medical School, "Using Aptamer Arrays to Identify Biomarkers of Chemical-induced Toxicity." EOHSI, Room 402, 12pm.

3/26/2007 - Mitchell D. Erickson, Ph.D., US Department of Homeland Security. Issues in Critical Infrastructure Protection, 10am, UMDNJ-School of Public Health, Room 3A-B, Piscataway, NJ. "Dr. Erickson is a widely recognized expert on both chemical and radiological threats.  His talk will present the overarching needs to protect our nation’s infrastructure, and how the federal government is structured to meet these needs."

3/14/2007 - Panos Georgopoulos, Ph.D., Optimization tools for in silico proteomics, 12pm, EOHSI Conference Room C, Rutgers University, Busch Campus, Piscataway, NJ.

3/9/2007 - Drew Endy, Ph.D., Assistant Professor, Biological Engineering, MIT. "Synthetic Biology and Biological Security" 12:30pm, Room 280, Carl Icahn Laboratory, Princeton, NJ.

3/1/2007 - Dana Barr, Ph.D., Toxicology Branch, Division of Laboratory Sciences, Centers for Disease Control. “Assessing Exposure Using Biomonitoring” 12pm, EOHSI Building, conf room C, Rutgers University, Busch Campus, Piscataway, NJ.

2/27/2007 - Seminar: "Challenges in Targeting Actives to the Skin", Bozena B. Michniak-Kohn, Ph.D., M.R., Pharm. S., Conference Room C, EOHSI Building, Rutgers University, Piscataway, NJ.

2/26/2007 - Opening of the new Department of Homeland Security "Center of Excellence" for Dynamic Data Analysis, 2:30-5:30 pm, CoRE Building, Busch Campus, Rutgers University, Piscataway, NJ. Also includes a presentation on DHS research problems at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory and a keynote address on data privacy by Steven Fienman of Carnegie-Mellon University.

1/26/07 - Documentation and Regulatory Requirements for Pharmaceutical Development - Noreen Sinko, Department of Pharmaceutics, Rutgers University School of Pharmacy. 12-1pm, 007, Pharmacy Building, Rutgers University.

1/10/07 - New Rutgers Pharmaceutical Engineering course offering: "Pharmaceutical Organic Nanotechnology (16:155:544): this course provides an introduction to organic nanotechnolgoy and experimental design methods and their applications to designing and manufacturing drug products for the pharmaceutical industry.

12/13/2006 - William Welsh, Ph.D., Cheminformatics Tools for Toxicant Identification and Characterization, EOHSI, Conference Room C, Rutgers University, 12pm.

10/31/06 - Low surfactant delivery systems based upon sucrose ester emulsifiers - Paul Thau, Pa Car Tech, Berkeley Heights, NJ. 12:30 pm-1:30 pm, Conference Room C, EOHSI, Rutgers University.

10/26/06 - Laminin-332 and MMP-9 upregulation in wounded mouse skin - Donald Gerecke, Ph.D.
3-4:30pm, Seminar Room, Lab for Cancer Research, Rutgers University.

The UMDNJ/Rutgers University Counter Center is a collaboration between:

 

 

Related Links :

Below are links to national efforts to combat sulfur mustard toxicity:

Centers for Disease Control | Department of Homeland Security | CounterACT Program Home | Mustard gas

Message from the Director:

"This is a massive effort designed to coordinate many different research groups. We will develop drugs that can be used against actual chemicals that could be used in a terror attack."

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